Gangliogliomas are tumors that start from groups of nerve cells (ganglion and glial cells) and grow in the brain. They are usually small and noncancerous, and they do not spread to other parts of the body.
Gangliogliomas are rare tumors. Most gangliogliomas occur in children and young adults.
Symptoms
Seizures, headache, vomiting,
fatigue and weakness on one side of the body.
Tumours of the nervous system |
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| Endocrine | | Sellar: |
- Craniopharyngioma
- Pituicytoma
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| Other: | |
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| CNS | Neuroepithelial (brain tumors, spinal tumors) | | Glioma | | Astrocyte |
- Astrocytoma
- Glioblastoma
- Pilocytic astrocytoma
- Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma
- Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma
- Fibrillary astrocytoma
- Anaplastic astrocytoma
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| Oligodendrocyte |
- Oligodendroglioma
- Anaplastic oligodendroglioma
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| Ependyma | |
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| Choroid plexus |
- Choroid plexus tumor
- Choroid plexus papilloma
- Choroid plexus carcinoma
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| Multiple/unknown |
- Oligoastrocytoma
- Gliomatosis cerebri
- Gliosarcoma
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Mature neuron |
- Ganglioneuroma: Ganglioglioma
- Retinoblastoma
- Neurocytoma
- Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour
- Lhermitte–Duclos disease
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| CNS embryonal tumors |
- Medulloblastoma
- Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor
- Embryonal tumour with multilayered rosettes
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| Meninges |
- Meningioma
- Hemangiopericytoma
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| Hematopoietic | |
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| PNS: | |
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| Other |
- WHO classification of the tumors of the central nervous system
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Note: Not all brain tumors are of nervous tissue, and not all nervous tissue tumors are in the brain (see brain metastasis).
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